Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:39:47 +0100 From: Neil Long <neil@cymru.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: boot0 problem - strange character for default drive? Message-ID: <89FD4584-5271-42A2-8E7D-9F40B9CA5E23@cymru.com>
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Hi Yesterday I had a problem with a gmirror configuration and one drive started squeaking rather unpleasantly. If I physically remove one of the drives I don't get a normal boot0 screen i.e. F1 for FreeBSD and F5 is Drive 0 - typical for gmirror??) but some strange character after the 'F' - I can't find the ascii number for it but it looks like a capital "I" (more of an I-Beam i.e. distinct flats top and bottom) with a diamond in the centre. Hitting any key just gives a # and left to itself there is a series of '#". I gave up and left it overnight and today I was able to boot the good disk and even deactivate/insert the bad disk which completed. All seemed fine, no errors in dmesg but on reboot - all I get is the above state. I tried the SATA controller on the mobo and a plug-in PCI cheap one (tried two). Makes no difference. It boots fine off an IDE drive. It boots fine using the same SATA controllers for an older non-gmirror drive (then I simply get the F1: FreeBSD option) so I don't think it is the cpu/memory/mobo?? I now have the same boot0 problem with either drive from the gmirror Anyone else seen this and have a fix? I don't want to zap the drives since there is a working system there but just can't get to it :-) Thanks Neil
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